Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Descriptions of Individual Manuscripts
- Manuscripts in the United Kingdom
- Manuscripts in Continental Europe
- Manuscripts in the United States of America
- Appendix I Summary List of Manuscripts, with date, lines missing, other contents and note of Macaulay’s classification; with Fragments (brief descriptions) and Extracts listed at the end
- Appendix II Manuscript Sigla used by Macaulay, in alphabetical order
- Appendix III Gower’s Latin Addenda to the Confessio and other pieces, not by Gower, that appear in Confessio Manuscripts
- Works Cited
- Index of Manuscripts
- General Index
- Volumes Already Published
- PlateSection
14 - London, British Library, MS Harley 3869
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2024
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Descriptions of Individual Manuscripts
- Manuscripts in the United Kingdom
- Manuscripts in Continental Europe
- Manuscripts in the United States of America
- Appendix I Summary List of Manuscripts, with date, lines missing, other contents and note of Macaulay’s classification; with Fragments (brief descriptions) and Extracts listed at the end
- Appendix II Manuscript Sigla used by Macaulay, in alphabetical order
- Appendix III Gower’s Latin Addenda to the Confessio and other pieces, not by Gower, that appear in Confessio Manuscripts
- Works Cited
- Index of Manuscripts
- General Index
- Volumes Already Published
- PlateSection
Summary
Confessio Amantis, paper, single column, with Latin addenda, also Traitié, with associated Latin verses; Carmen super multiplici viciorum pestilencia; ‘Eneidos Bucolis’. Also, not by Gower, Verses on Queen Margaret’s Entry (on an added quire) and two Marian lyrics
s.xv, second quarter
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(fol. 1) blank, except for later inscriptions
1*
(fols 2r–4v) Verses on Queen Margaret’s Entry into London
(Heading: Atte the Brigge foot in Suthwerke | Pees and plente. Ingredimini et replete terram.) Moost cristen Princesse by influence of grace < > By contemplacioun of hys glorie. Deo gracias. Amen.
Lacks beginning; space at the top of fol. 2v indicates awareness of the loss of an eight-line stanza with heading.
DIMEV 3541, NIMEV 2200. Same hand (s.xv, second half) as Items 12*–14*. Heading in the hand of John Stow (s.xvi, fourth quarter). Printed by Carleton Brown, ‘Lydgate’s Verses on Queen Margaret’s Entry into London’, Modern Language Review, 7 (1912), 225–34; also by Gordon Kipling, ‘The London Pageants for Margaret of Anjou: A Medieval Script Restored’, Medieval English Theatre, 4 (1982), 5–27. Brown attributes the work to Lydgate, following Stow, and has been followed in this by subsequent scholars; however, Kipling demonstrates that it is not by Lydgate.
2
(fols 5r–356v) Confessio Amantis Prol. 1–VIII.3172end
Torpor ebes sensus scola parua labor minimusque, etc. (6 lines of Latin verse).
Of hem þat writen vs tofore < > Oure ioie mai ben endeles
Prologue (fol. 5r); Book I (fol. 18r); Book II (fol. 56v); Book III (fol. 93v); Book IV (fol. 120v); Book V (fol. 158v); Book VI (fol. 240v); Book VII (fol. 266r, but English text at 266v); Book VIII (fol. 323v).
Text: collated by Macaulay (sigil H2): III. ‘The MS’, says Macaulay (ed., Works, II.clx), ‘appears to be copied directly from F [Bodleian, MS Fairfax 3], and gives an excellent text, reproducing that of the Fairfax MS with considerable accuracy, and for the most part copying also its mistakes and peculiarities’ (Macaulay gives a list of these), but correcting some obvious mistakes (he gives a few examples).
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- A Descriptive Catalogue of the English Manuscripts of John Gower's Confessio Amantis , pp. 110 - 118Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2021